11.18.2011

Wanna know where my inspiration for my 2 hour workout came from?
If these people can do it all day, I can do it for 2 hours. At least when Weston's working, other nights it is just not feasible. Anyways, do you watch this show, too? I catch it online when I have down time in the phone room (I haven't been in the phone room for about 3 weeks, so it's been a while).  But I love this show!
I've always been a sucker for reality TV though, so I've had to discipline myself & not watch much. It helps that we have 0 cable, not even basic. Bahah, so really this show every couple months is all I see. However, one day this week I got home for my lunch break & saw that Wes had left the laptop home. So I watched it.

Does anyone else tear up watching this?

bahah anyways, just thought I'd give this awesome show a shout out.

My parents have a sweet gym set up at the house w/ an elliptical by a TV. So a few summers ago I lived at home & I would work out on the elliptical every day & watch Biggest Loser. It was always inspiring. & I just love everyone's stories & I love cheering them on in their successes! I think I love it so much because I can relate so well. I have always had to work to keep myself trim. & I mean really hard. Constant discipline, which I'm sure many of you understand, too, but it's exhaustive. However, I've continued to work hard.  It's just seemed the past year I just started gaining & Last Christmas I decided to make a change & so I started to, yet continued gaining. It's been a rough year on my body. But I will keep on working at it & trying my hardest! Just like my friends on Biggest Loser!
This pretty much sums everything up right now.
(Except he sent this to me expressing his math homework experience.)


I have had about 1,000 doctor's appointments in the year. I know I shared with ya'll the thyroid stuff & that alone involved about 7 different doctors aka bills.
Not that they're hugely expensive that we can't take care of, but it's hard to find the time (during office hours) since I work during office hours, to call & get them paid. & I don't feel comfortable writing down my card info & putting it into the mail going 7 different directions. So, I call them all.

There's the Grandview bill for the ultrasound.
There is the Riverwoods bill for the Radiologist.
There is the Central Utah bill for the ultrasound
There is the Pathology bill.
There is the Radiologist bill.
There is the thyroid bloodwork pathology bill.
Luckily I got a free physical & girl appt. so those 2 Dr. visits were covered 100% by insurance. Thank you Blue Cross Blue Shield.
& I found out I have a bill at a collections agency from APRIL that was never sent to me. But no, I can't pay that through Central Utah, I have to call the collection agency.
Wowzers. A bunch of little bills to call & pay.

& then Weston's 2 MRIs have not been covered by his insurance yet, we've had to jump through rings of fire to do all the "steps" they require for paying for "high expense care." Or atleast that's what they told us.  So everything apparently automatically gets marked as pre-existing & we have to PROVE it's not preexisting. This has included writing a detailed letter explaining he hasn't been seen by a doctor in the past 6 months before he got put onto that insurance last summer. & then having all of his medical records faxed to them. & that doesn't include getting & submitting all the medical consent forms to those doctor's offices to RELEASE the information to the insurance company.

My brain hurts. 

& I have been working out really intensely for the past 2 months. I even had a 2 hour workout on Tuesday night. I'm beating myself up. But don't worry, my body hasn't shown any signs of responding to the working out. Or the dieting. & I've been doing a good job.  Not eating past 7 (unless we get home late), smaller portions, little or no sweets. Things like that. Snacks between my 7:30 a.m. breakfast and my 2:30 p.m. lunch so I'm not starving. But nothing.  Does anyone have any advice? I think I am going to see an endocrinologist to discuss my low thyroid levels with them, to see if that's my problem.  No matter what I've done in the past year, I've kept gaining weight. & believe me, I don't share my woes with people unless I've been putting in an honest effort, which in the past has given me results.  

& I'm working 2 jobs between the Health Center & Branbury. & Weston is working Branbury & has his head buried in school all the time. With WHICH he has done EXTREMELY well! He's taking 18 credits & works & will come out this semester with A's & B's. I do not know how he does what he does.

& we're trying to figure out our career route, Wes doesn't want me sharing yet what the options are, for certain reasons, but firefighting is still in our deck of cards, and he's still doing Emergency Services Administration as his major & we're staying at UVU, but as far as post grad plans, we'll keep you posted, but it has also been in the front of our brains. You could say all four burners have been going for far too long & I am mentally & emotionally WIPED! :) But boy a vacation break has never been so needed or wanted as this one next week.  Thank you pilgrims for sharing food with the Indians. & thank you Indians for showing the pilgrims how to grow that food.  It makes for a great holiday.

Anyways, I'm sorry to vent on here. Just thought I'd let ya'll know why I'm too swamped to breathe, therefore leaving no creative juices for the blog! I love you all though! & know that EVERYTHING is okay & we're fine. Just exhausted, but what's new? :)

xoxocanIsleepforfivedaysstraightplease?

11.14.2011

I am terrible at taking pictures lately.  Literally I fail in that department.

I brought our point & shoot to the bonfire Friday night. Took maybe 2 pictures. Before we left of Spence & Weston.
Saturday, great day, worked all mornin/early afternoon & then we hit the gym & then grocery shopped & then watched LOST all night. It was the most relaxing evening I could have asked for. I was in heaven.
Sunday Chad's farewell that a.m.  Tyler, Bri & Brett spent all day at our apartment, then Jenna & Jordo joined later. Then onto a family dinner that evening. Where I might have shoved my foot in my mouth & down my throat just a few times.  But, again, no photos.  I'm sorry to fail & have nothing cool to put up here. Please don't give up on me!

Work is great though. I LOVE my job. Can I say that enough.  Wes & I have been working with more future plan ideas. The Lord works in mysterious ways, that's for sure.  A dear coworker of mine, Joan Pehrson, passed away on Saturday.  She had a vicious cancer that she had been on all sorts of medications making her so sick for the past 3 years. Her face & whole body was so swollen & she was so sick, but came to work the past 3-4 years like that.  She went home last month. It was so sad. We all cried & cried. She passed away Saturday.  Let me tell you, though. She was an incredible lady that helped so many people here at the health center.
 
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